Chinatown connotes color and in a larger sense the hidden twoness of things. It is both a place and a state of affairs, part of Los Angeles and Los Angeles itself. At the end, we learn that Noah Cross "owns the police", that the cover-up Gittes detested in Chinatown extends all over. To paraphrase Marlowe's Mephistopheles ; Why this is Chinatown, nor am i out of it.
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Norman Holland
A Sharper Focus
Un Flic
Lies had deserted me and i felt as lonely as though they had been my only friends.
Graham Greene
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Tim Shorten
On one level, Vertigo is a clever story about the factuality of the unrelenting male gaze that dominates and dictates both our shared collective mentality and the reality and the majority of the narratives we as a species create and willingly consume, but it should also be viewed as a clever deconstruction of it.
Koraljka Suton
Cinephiliabeyond.org
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Sean Phillips
Henry Rollins
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Tag Christof
Babylon Berlin
